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CreditStats Direct™
Clarity. Consistency. Comparability.
Financial professionals around the world are enhancing their credit analysis
by gaining deeper insight into Standard & Poor's ratings methodologies.
Now with CreditStats DirectTM, they have access to the financial statement data adjusted by
Standard & Poor's credit analysts and used to evaluate North American and European corporate and utility issuers.
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CreditStats Direct is a powerful add-on product to RatingsDirect� that gives subscribers ready access to credit-adjusted financial statement information to improve clarity, consistency, and
comparability. CreditStats Direct helps users:
- Identify investment opportunities and mitigate risk with further clarity into the methodologies that Standard & Poor's analysts use to arrive at their credit ratings
- Enhance analysis with consistent company-by-company and line item-by-line item financial statement data to support an evaluation of credit quality.
- Improve efficiency with easy-to-use comparison tools to view side-by-side financial statistics and ratios for up to 100 entities or aggregates for up to five portfolios.
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As one of the leading authorities on global credit markets for over 140 years, Standard & Poor's
Ratings Services takes an in-depth look at financial statement information and makes adjustments
where necessary to:
- Enable more meaningful peer and period-over-period comparisons
- Better reflect underlying economics
- Normalize different estimates and assumptions
- Better reflect creditors' risks and rights
- Enhance forecasting
Typical adjustments are made to items such as Accrued Interest and Dividends, Asset Retirement Obligations,
Capitalized Development Costs, Inventory Accounting Methods, Operating Leases,
Post-Retirement Employee Benefits/Deferred Compensation, and more.
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